{"id":997,"date":"2016-01-24T23:38:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T15:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.joel.net.au\/?p=997"},"modified":"2016-01-31T21:21:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T13:21:11","slug":"born-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2016\/01\/24\/born-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Born Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my last weekend in Kenya, we made one last trip into the Rift Valley.  This time we visited the very beautiful Lake Naivasha National Park for a bit of easy hiking and a bit more wildlife spotting.  We did another crater rim hike, but is was not nearly as spectacular as Mount Longonot &#8211; although it did have a lake in the middle.  It was fittingly called Crater Lake.  We could see giraffes on the volcano floor along with a number of warthogs.  Outside of the crater were plenty more giraffes, impalas, and other herbivores.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/view_trip.php?trip_id=3355600\">Crater Lake Volcano Hike<\/a><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/iframe2.php?trip_id=3355600&#038;width=400&#038;height=300\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We stopped by the Ranch House Bistro for lunch as we started our return journey to Nairobi.  Afterwards, as we continued our trip, we dropped by Elsamere for a cup of tea and a browse around the house that was home to George and Joy Adamson of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060182\/\" target=\"_blank\">Born Free<\/a>&#8221; fame.  The property was named after Elsa the lion &#8211; and star of the same film.  There was a 45 minute documentary to watch and many of their possessions on display.  The house was built in a beautiful location on the shores of Lake Naivasha.  A group of baboons, and later, colobus monkeys, swung around in the trees next to the lake to keep us entertained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my last weekend in Kenya, we made one last trip into the Rift Valley. This time we visited the very beautiful Lake Naivasha National Park for a bit of easy hiking and a bit more wildlife spotting. We did another crater rim hike, but is was not nearly as spectacular as Mount Longonot &#8211;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2016\/01\/24\/born-free\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Born Free<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[73,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kenya","category-rift-valley","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sHuW-g5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}